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| BCI report on Kathua case- A shot in the arm of Jammu lawyers | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Apr 27: The much-awaited report of Bar Council of India (BCI) on the alleged Kathua murder case was submitted to the Supreme Court of India on April 26. It has pleasantly come as a shot in the arm for Jammu lawyers, who have been protesting against an allegedly unfair investigation by the Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) Crime Branch into the Kathua incident. The BCI has backed the lawyers' demand for the matter to be handed over to the CBI.
The BCI has communicated the same to the Supreme Court in a report prepared by a probe team it sent to J&K. The 5-member team was led by a retired High Court judge. It has given the Jammu lawyers a clean chit over their alleged misbehaviour.
Earlier, the Jammu and Kathua lawyers were pulled up by the Supreme Court for what it called their protest against the chargesheet being filed by the J&K Crime Branch. The lawyers had then claimed that the "chargesheet being filed was prepared under political pressure from the Mehbooba Mufti led PDP government, and the J&K police investigation's impartiality was suspect".
National media, both print and electronic, barring bulk of Hindi media, however, had portrayed the Jammu lawyers demand for an impartial CBI probe as "their support for the accused after which they faced unfair nationwide condemnation".
The lawyers protest though, invoked a groundswell of local support in Jammu with locals questioning the credentials of the police team constituted by the J&K government to probe the case. Irfan Wani, a member of the police team probing the case had earlier faced charges of "rape of a girl and custodial death of her brother in 2007".
The J&K High Court Bar Association in the meantime also denied all allegations of having obstructed a woman lawyer representing the victim's family, from taking up the case. In its affidavit to the SC, the association stated about the allegations that "It is totally false and baseless and the same is vehemently/specifically denied".
The J&K High Court Bar Association also stated in its affidavit that the "state government backed efforts were being made to create a Kashmir like situation in Jammu to effect a demographic change in the region". It claimed that the "government is settling illegal Rohingya immigrants near sensitive locations like army camps, railway stations, airport and other places of strategic importance".
As expected, the BCI report has been hailed by all the protesting people of Jammu in general and of Kathua in particular. All have termed the findings of and observations made by the BCI as "vindication of their stand on a CBI probe into the case". They have all expressed the view that the Supreme Court will consider this report and hand over the case to CBI for a fair and an impartial probe. |
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